Karen Young Kreeger | Aug 20, 1995 | 8 min read
Tracing its origin back 60 years to the Research Division of the United States Narcotics Farm--a treatment facility for opiate addicts located in Lexington, Ky.--the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has grown into the world's largest drug addiction research facility. Sidebar: DISCUSSING THE SCIENCE BEHIND DRUG ADDICTION "This institute intramurally and extramurally provides 85 percent of the world support for research on drug abuse and addiction," remark